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LiDARs are widely used in autonomous robots due to their ability to provide accurate environment structural information. However, the large size of point clouds poses challenges in terms of data storage and transmission. In this paper, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yuhao Cao , Yu Wang , Haoyao Chen

Autonomous vehicles rely on LiDAR sensors to generate 3D point clouds for accurate segmentation and object detection. In a context of a smart city framework, we would like to understand the effect that transmission (compression) can have on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Tiago de S. Fernandes , Ricardo L. de Queiroz

To realize low-latency spatial transmission system for immersive telepresence, there are two major problems: capturing dynamic 3D scene densely and processing them in real time. LiDAR sensors capture 3D in real time, but produce sparce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Kazuhiko Murasaki , Shunsuke Konagai , Masakatsu Aoki , Taiga Yoshida , Ryuichi Tanida

Point clouds have gained prominence across numerous applications due to their ability to accurately represent 3D objects and scenes. However, efficiently compressing unstructured, high-precision point cloud data remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hongning Ruan , Yulin Shao , Qianqian Yang , Liang Zhao , Zhaoyang Zhang , Dusit Niyato

LiDAR devices obtain a 3D representation of a space. Due to the large size of the resulting datasets, there already exist storage methods that use compression and present some properties that resemble those of compact data structures.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Susana Ladra , Miguel R. Luaces , José R. Paramá , Fernando Silva-Coira

As three-dimensional acquisition technologies like LiDAR cameras advance, the need for efficient transmission of 3D point clouds is becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we present a novel semantic communication (SemCom) approach…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Shangzhuo Xie , Qianqian Yang , Yuyi Sun , Tianxiao Han , Zhaohui Yang , Zhiguo Shi

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

The recent advances in 3D sensing technology have made possible the capture of point clouds in significantly high resolution. However, increased detail usually comes at the expense of high storage, as well as computational costs in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Giorgos Bouritsas , Stefanos Zafeiriou

Point clouds have been recognized as a crucial data structure for 3D content and are essential in a number of applications such as virtual and mixed reality, autonomous driving, cultural heritage, etc. In this paper, we propose a set of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Maurice Quach , Giuseppe Valenzise , Frederic Dufaux

With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Junkun Qi , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo

LiDAR sensors are an integral part of modern autonomous vehicles as they provide an accurate, high-resolution 3D representation of the vehicle's surroundings. However, it is computationally difficult to make use of the ever-increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Marc Uecker , Tobias Fleck , Marcel Pflugfelder , J. Marius Zöllner

Recent years have witnessed the growth of point cloud based applications because of its realistic and fine-grained representation of 3D objects and scenes. However, it is a challenging problem to compress sparse, unstructured, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-10 Jianqiang Wang , Dandan Ding , Zhu Li , Zhan Ma

In recent years, point cloud representation has become one of the research hotspots in the field of computer vision, and has been widely used in many fields, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, robotics, etc. Although deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Huang Zhang , Changshuo Wang , Shengwei Tian , Baoli Lu , Liping Zhang , Xin Ning , Xiao Bai

LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet the extreme sparsity of high-precision geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting the compression speed and performance of existing methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengpeng Yu , Haoran Li , Runqing Jiang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Liang Lin , Yulan Guo

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

This paper studies 3D LiDAR mapping with a focus on developing an updatable and localizable map representation that enables continuity, compactness and consistency in 3D maps. Traditional LiDAR Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Kaicheng Zhang , Shida Xu , Yining Ding , Xianwen Kong , Sen Wang

The rapid growth of 3D point cloud data, driven by applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and immersive environments, has led to criticals demand for efficient compression and quality assessment techniques. Unlike traditional 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yiling Xu , Yujie Zhang , Shuting Xia , Kaifa Yang , He Huang , Ziyu Shan , Wenjie Huang , Qi Yang , Le Yang

In recent times, the scope of LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensor-based technology has spread across numerous fields. It is popularly used to map terrain and navigation information into reliable 3D point cloud data, potentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Aakash Kumar , Jyoti Kini , Mubarak Shah , Ajmal Mian

LiDAR-based SLAM algorithms are extensively studied to providing robust and accurate positioning for autonomous driving vehicles (ADV) in the past decades. Satisfactory performance can be obtained using high-grade 3D LiDAR with 64 channels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Jiang Yue , Weisong Wen , Jing Han , Li-Ta Hsu

The introduction of cheap RGB-D cameras, stereo cameras, and LIDAR devices has given the computer vision community 3D information that conventional RGB cameras cannot provide. This data is often stored as a point cloud. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Aleksandr Savchenkov , Andrew Davis , Xuan Zhao